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and that long and well they performed their part, being 

 possessed of immense powers of draught. This latter 

 report does not to me appear so improbable as the 

 former. 



Two methods of capturing moose I have not alluded 

 to, for why? They appear so antagonistic to all 

 those feelings that should actuate the gentleman ; viz., 

 by snaring, and immense steel spring traps. The 

 minutiae of the modes of proceeding by which the 

 unsuspicious game is induced to enter either of the 

 above devices, I am certain would not be interesting 

 to a sportsman. 



For many years it was a disputed point whether 

 the moose deer of America and the elk of Europe were 

 the same species ; but the most eminent of recent and 

 present authorities agree that they are identical. 

 Captain Hardy, of the Royal Artillery, who was 

 stationed many years in Canada, and devoted much of 

 his time to moose hunting, as well as studying this 

 animal's habits, and who is also conversant with the 

 European elk, in the admirable articles which he has 

 published in that deservedly esteemed periodical on 

 practical natural history Land and Water empha- 

 tically asserts that there are not the smallest grounds 

 for any diversity of opinion on the subject. Audubon, 

 an authority second to none, refuses to give a decision, 



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